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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,073 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.0

      Senior management

      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,073 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      209K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 18, 2008

      Micromanagement will drive you crazy, but opportunities are there.

      Ui designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Opportunity to work on many different projects, smart people in general. Genuinely oriented towards customers.

      Cons

      Constant, time-wasting micro-management. Absurd attention to tiny details by the most senior managers and VPs, and certainly by Bezos himself. Often a sense of wasted effort when some VP's whim changes. A very decentralized organization, which can make things very political--often the loudest jerk wins the argument.

      2.0
      Oct 16, 2008

      not for everyone

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company has a very clear vision. If you are sufficiently extraverted and political, opportunities for advancement can be good.

      Cons

      The environment is very political. Although one of the company core competencies is "not optimizing for optics", the company is infested with brutal politics and appearances are more important than actual performance. This is partly a result of the darwinian management style (10% of employees are managed out every year as part of the performance process, and can end up getting the message throughout the year that they did a good job, and suddenly they are being managed out) Communication, both between groups and up and down the management chain is terrible. The company is incredibly secretive. Pressure to work long hours in this environment is incredible.

      3.0
      Oct 15, 2008

      This place is still being run the same way it was when it started (with some minor improvements)

      Software development engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It is the place to be for e-commerce. You won't get this kind of experience anywhere else. For someone with little experience, its a great place to get a lot of responsibility quickly.

      Cons

      The company hates to promote engineers. If you want to get promoted past SDE-II you're much better off becoming a manager. Some groups have bad support burdens and management doesn't seem to care. The environment itself is pure chaos. Goals and priorities change constantly.

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